John W Grim

The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing

Teilhard De Chardin: A Short Biography

Reflections on Shamanism: The Tribal Healer and the Technological Trance

The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians

Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment

John Grim

John Helm Grim (August 9, 1867 July 28, 1961) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player. Born in Lebanon, Kentucky, he played 11 seasons in the...

Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community (Religions of the World and Ecology)

A new perspective on religions and the environment emerges from this collection. The authors, a diverse group of indigenous and non-native scholars and environmental activists, address compelling and urgent questions facing indigenous communities as they struggle with threats to their own sovereign...

The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a...

Ecology and Religion (Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies Series)

From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital.This primer explores the history of religious trad...

Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe (Ecology and Justice)

Prominent theologians, ethicists, scientists, and activists explore specifically Christian responses to the Universe Story and its implications for the contemporary environmental crisis. Beginning with excerpts from recent statements by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the book...

Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment (Ecology and Justice Series)

Amidst the many voices clamoring to interpret the environmental crisis, some of the most important are the voices of religious traditions. Long before modernity's industrialism began the rape of Earth, premodern religious and philosophical traditions mediated to untold generations the wisdom of livi...

Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (Routledge International Handbooks)

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and au...

Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community (Modern Spiritual Masters)

Thomas Berry (1914-2009), a Passionist priest, was a “geologian,” historian of religion, philosopher, and the single most important Catholic voice on the link between faith, reverence for all life, and the environmental crisis. Particularly well-known for his work in popularizing the “universe story...

The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community

Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...